**Date:** 1924
**Source:** Lenin Miscellany, vol. 26
**Pages:** 224-225

NOTES FOR A SPEECH ON RELATIONS BETWEEN WORKERS 
AND INTELLECTUALS IN PARTY ORGANIZATIONS.
[May 5 (April 22) 1905]
19th Session
Outline of my second speech 1
F r o m  V o l g i n ' s  s p e e c h *  o n  t h e  i n t r o d u c t i o n  o f  w o r k e r s  
i n t o  c o m m i t t e e s :
"Not because we did not want to, but because we were not able to" . . .  1
1650
Volgin: searched for a year, did not find
Applied the wrong criterion — that is the crux of the matter.......... 3
........go to Russia, write not what you wrote.... 4
. .. . "squeeze out the watery stuff from the resolution" . . . and then nothing
will be left 5
R E L A T E  T O  P R O P A G A N D A .  . . .  6
Vlasov**: ... "I strive to take a practical point of view" ...

1 Lenin's speech referred to here is printed on p. 374 of the full text of the protocols, 1924 ed. Lenin either incompletely used the materials from the notes presented here, or the protocol-takers recorded his speech very incompletely.

2 At the 15th session on May 3, the Saratov delegate V. Obukhov said: "We searched for a long time for workers to introduce into the committee and only from autumn were we able to accomplish this task" (see Protocols, p. 293). Lenin answered Obukhov: "If in Saratov only one worker was introduced into the committee, then it means they did not know how to select suitable people from among the workers" (ibid., p. 297).

* V. Obukhov. Ed.
** Rykov. Ed.

3 D. Postolovsky at the 15th session said: "The criterion for admitting workers to the committee should not be the same as that applied to intellectuals" (ibid., p. 297–298). From Lunacharsky's speech at the 19th session on May 5: "The committees impose excessive demands on worker candidates" (ibid., p. 372).

4 At the congress some delegates counterposed Russian committee activists-practitioners to "foreign" men of letters. Thus, Obukhov said: "If Lunacharsky worked in Russia, he would not so easily resolve the question" (ibid., p. 372).

5 The words quoted belong to A. Rykov (see ibid., p. 373).

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The proposal to adopt a resolution on relations between workers and intellectuals was rejected by the congress. The parts of the resolution concerning the preparation of workers for central institutions and local committees were referred to the order of the day concerning propaganda and agitation.